OpenEuphoria

Re: Carl White's editor request.

• Posted by "Carl R. White" <euphoria at carlw.legend.uk.com> Jan 02, 2002
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"Bernie Ryan" wrote:

> Carl:
>    With the next release of the cs editor
>    could you please add an option that allows
>    the user to disable replacing TABs with SPACES.
>    The editor should be able to edit using TABS or
>    expanding them into spaces at the user's option.

A 'next' version of EE:CS is more an 'if' than a 'when' at the moment.

The feature you request wouldn't be too difficult to implement, since
space-to-tab compression is only done on Euphoria files, so other files are
left alone.

If you want to switch to using the source-based editor rather than the bound
.EXE (which I admit is a bit of a pain), you can achieve what you want by
changing:

    dump = (edited[fNum][READ_ONLY] >= isBinary)

to:

    dump = 1 -- (edited[fNum][READ_ONLY] >= isBinary)

...on line 772 of EE.EX.

This, of course, turns off *all* space-to-tab compression. I suspect that
this is what you were after though. :)

[ ED.EX does exactly the same thing to Euphoria source, and Mr. Cuny
implemented the same thing in the original EE. I have a feeling it was
deliberately crippled though, because I had to 'fix' it. :) ]

Carl